Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

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"It is true that Hamlet at the end of Act I vows "reluctantly" to revenge his father's murder, but this reluctance is so dominant that we can hardly be surprised to find that by the end of Act II he has not advanced an inch in fulfilling his vow, and, in fact, has fallen further away from that fulfillment.

After being told by the ghost that his uncle is the murderer of his father, Hamlet is impassioned with rage and the desire for revenge (I, 5, 92-111), but even in those lines it is difficult to find Hamlet specifically making the vow to avenge his father's murder. We hear Hamlet cursing his mother and his uncle ["O most pernicious woman!/ O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!" (I, 5, 105-106)], but he does not actually come out and declare that he is indeed going to take his oft-flashed sword and do the bloody deed of vengeance."

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